malxau
ARM32 and PowerPC installer
Any chance for the ARM32 and PowerPC versions of the yori installer to be provided? They don't exist in the website unlike e.g. the MIPS version
Also ARM32 is the only architecture Windows NT has commercially supported that cannot run x86 applications, so the x86 installer won't work there, unlike e.g. MIPS or PowerPC
The code can be compiled on PowerPC, but since it’s using MS compilers, that implies a PowerPC host. So far dingusppc has been ported which makes this possible, but it’s still difficult to integrate. Unlike MIPS I haven’t had any success getting the WinCE PPC cross compilers to generate NT PPC binaries. So as of now I don’t have a straightforward way to provide these.
ARM32 should have been there and it looks like I messed it up in the recent 2.50 release. Yori uses its own C runtime, and in 2.50 I made a change to implement memcpy et al with those names to handle cases where the compiler generates them implicitly. On x86 this works well, but on ARM32 Yori is using the compiler’s C runtime for 64 bit math and the new names caused conflicts. I’ve once again scrubbed out anything that implicitly generates a memcpy from ARM32 builds and pushed those changes. Ideally ARM32 would have its own 64 bit math libraries like x86, but I’d have to learn ARM32 assembly for what is effectively a dead architecture.
Agree there should be links to an ARM32 installer for completeness. Although PowerPC and MIPS had x86 emulators, note that those were NT4 and above, and not installed by default. Even AMD64 has variants like WinPE or Nano that don’t emulate x86. So really there should be links to all of the native installers.
